Wasafiri 57: Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas
Issue 57: Spring 2009
Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas
Interviews with Linda Grant and Vikram Seth
Poems by Richard Berengarten, Jenni Daiche, Ruth Fainlight and Elaine Feinstein
Fiction by Ian Craine and Samir El-Youssef
Anita Desai’s Ca'Foscsari Prize acceptance speech, Venice 2008
Art Essay: Israeli Art Reflecting Cultural Trauma
Articles on the East End Bildungsroman from Israel Zangwill to Monica Ali, Cixous and Derrida, Nazi Cinema, Fanon and Klüger
Reviews of Jacqueline Rose's The Last Resistance and Question of Zion, Linda Grant's The People on the Street: A Writer’s View of Israel, Rozena Maart's The Writing Circle, Estha David's Shalom India Housing Society and Arun Kundnani's The End of Tolerance
Contents
Bryan Cheyette
Editorial
Nadia Valman
The East End Bildungsroman from Israel Zangwill to Monica Ali
Max Silverman
Knotted Intersections: Cixous and Derrida
Michael Rothberg
In the Nazi Cinema: Race, Visuality and Identification in Fanon and Klüger
Maya Jaggi
Two Lives: An Interview with Vikram Seth
Emma Parker
Interview with Linda Grant
Clive Sinclair
The Kimberley Fantasy: An Alternative Zion
Dana Arieli-Horowitz
Existence Under Terror: Israeli Art Reflecting Cultural Trauma
Poetry Section
Featuring Elaine Feinstein, Ruth Fainlight, Richard Berengarten and Jenni Daiche
Anita Desai
Acceptance Speech for the Ca’Foscari Prize, Venice 2008
Samir El-youssef
Fiction: Company
Ian Craine
Fiction: In Khorezm
(Post)colonial Jews
Three personal pieces of Jewish self-critique by Jonathan Boyarin, Eitan Bar-Yosef and Miriam Sivan
Louis James
Obituary: Roy Heath
Reviews
Axel Stähler
Jacqueline Rose The Last Resistance and The Question of Zion
Eitan Bar-Yosef The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism
Linda Grant People on the Street: A Writer’s View of Israel
Sue Vice
Sander Gilman Multiculturalism and the Jews
David Brauner
Jonathan Freedman Klezmer America
Shaul Bassi
Aamir R Mufti Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Sam Naidu
Rozena Maart The Writing Circle
Esther David Shalom India Housing Society
Bruce King
Susan Visvanathan Phosphorus and Stone and The Seine at Noon
Gwenelle O’Neal
Baby Halder A Life Less Ordinary
Frederick Luis Aldama
Yasmin Crowther The Saffron Kitchen
James Gibbs
Anthonia C Kalu, ed The Rienner Anthology of African Literature
Jason Rotstein
Robert Sullivan Voice Carried My Family
Moniza Alvi How the Stone Found its Voice
Michela A Calderaro
Lorna Goodison Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems
Jacqueline Bishop Fauna
Tabish Khair
Arun Kundnani The End of Tolerance
Editorial
Nadia Valman
The East End Bildungsroman from Israel Zangwill to Monica Ali
Max Silverman
Knotted Intersections: Cixous and Derrida
Michael Rothberg
In the Nazi Cinema: Race, Visuality and Identification in Fanon and Klüger
Maya Jaggi
Two Lives: An Interview with Vikram Seth
Emma Parker
Interview with Linda Grant
Clive Sinclair
The Kimberley Fantasy: An Alternative Zion
Dana Arieli-Horowitz
Existence Under Terror: Israeli Art Reflecting Cultural Trauma
Poetry Section
Featuring Elaine Feinstein, Ruth Fainlight, Richard Berengarten and Jenni Daiche
Anita Desai
Acceptance Speech for the Ca’Foscari Prize, Venice 2008
Samir El-youssef
Fiction: Company
Ian Craine
Fiction: In Khorezm
(Post)colonial Jews
Three personal pieces of Jewish self-critique by Jonathan Boyarin, Eitan Bar-Yosef and Miriam Sivan
Louis James
Obituary: Roy Heath
Reviews
Axel Stähler
Jacqueline Rose The Last Resistance and The Question of Zion
Eitan Bar-Yosef The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism
Linda Grant People on the Street: A Writer’s View of Israel
Sue Vice
Sander Gilman Multiculturalism and the Jews
David Brauner
Jonathan Freedman Klezmer America
Shaul Bassi
Aamir R Mufti Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Sam Naidu
Rozena Maart The Writing Circle
Esther David Shalom India Housing Society
Bruce King
Susan Visvanathan Phosphorus and Stone and The Seine at Noon
Gwenelle O’Neal
Baby Halder A Life Less Ordinary
Frederick Luis Aldama
Yasmin Crowther The Saffron Kitchen
James Gibbs
Anthonia C Kalu, ed The Rienner Anthology of African Literature
Jason Rotstein
Robert Sullivan Voice Carried My Family
Moniza Alvi How the Stone Found its Voice
Michela A Calderaro
Lorna Goodison Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems
Jacqueline Bishop Fauna
Tabish Khair
Arun Kundnani The End of Tolerance
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